Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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